accessary
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Another popular accessary was face jewelry around the nose and cheekbones.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021
“An accessary, both before and after the fact,” he repeated to himself.
From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram
After sagely considering the matter, Toinon made up her mind that if she did not interfere, she might become in some sort an accessary to a tragedy.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
It slew itself; the verdict on the view Do quit the dead, and me not accessary.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote
I, and other English, immediately went in all haste to the king, acquainting him with what had happened, lest, if the Dutch had intended any treachery, he might have suspected us as being accessary.
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